Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE

Constanza Paulina Silva Gallardo

Address 219 Biobehavioral Health Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802

Office 118 Biobehavioral Health Building

Phone (814) 441 6131

Education

2015-present Biobehavioral Health Ph.D. Student, College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University.

Advisor: Dr. Helen Kamens

Research interest: Identification of genetic mechanisms involved in alcohol intake behavior alterations due to alcohol and nicotine pre-exposure in adolescent mice.

2014 Professional Degree of Biological Anthropologist, University of Chile.

Thesis: “Alcohol intake patterns and genetic variants involved in tolerance to this substance in undergraduate”.

2008-2012 Bachelor Degree in Anthropology, Universidad de Chile. Major: Biological Anthropology

Research Experience

2015-present Graduate research assistant in Dr. Helen Kamens’ Laboratory

Analysis of RNA-Seq data using R, WGCNA (Weighted gene co-expression network analysis) and IPA (Ingenuity Pathway Analysis).

2012-2014 Assistant at the Genetic Anthropology Laboratory Of Universidad de Chile (Faculty of Social Sciences)

DNA extraction from saliva samples, protocols standardizations, the design of primers, PCR procedures, use of bioinformatics software (MEGA 5, Arlequin, Bioedit) and programs like BLAST, PrimerInput, Nebcutter, PlasmidID, and R.

2013 Assistantship at "Interactions and human mobility in pre-Hispanic populations of Northern Chile: an integrative approach for the Social Sciences using biomedical, genetic, chemical and mineralogical markers" project, funded by Anillos ACT-96

Assistantship at standardization of plants primers (Algarrobo (Prosopis chilensis) and chañar samples (Geoffroea decorticans).

May-Dec Internship at “Paleodiet evolution in northern of Chile populations: bioanthropological 2012 and oral microbiome evidence” funded by FONDECYT 1110461 Sampling process of saliva DNA samples and standardization of Streptococcus massieliensis primers.

May-Oct Assistantship at "Bioarchaeological Analysis Project, Site "El Olivar" Brillamar" 2011 project, Las Condes, Región Metropolitana, Chile. Osteological Inventory of bioarqueological remains.

Feb 2010 Assistant curator, Padre Le Paige Museum, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.

Oct-Nov-Dec Assistant for dental data compilation from prehistoric osteological collection, University 2009 of Chile. Project: “Comparative analysis of indicators of Diet and Environmental Stress in Prehistoric Bioanthropological Material Northern of Chile: A Biocultural approach”

Research findings presented at the XIX National Congress of Chile Archaeology: http://www.scha.cl/cnach2012/certificado.php?id=285.

Teaching Experience

Jan-May Graduate teaching assistant for BBH 302: Diversity and Health. Professor Gary King. 2017 Graduate teaching assistant for BBH 310: Research Strategies for Studying Biobehavioral Health. Professor Hannah Schreier.

Aug-Dec Graduate teaching assistant for BBH 302: Diversity and Health. Professor Lori Francis 2016 Graduate teaching assistant for BBH 311: Interdisciplinary Integration in Biobehavioral Health. Professor Jennifer Graham-Engeland.

Aug-Dec Graduate teaching assistant for BBH 310: Research Strategies for Studying 2015 Biobehavioral Health. Professor Joseph Gyekis

Graduate teaching assistant for BBH 311: Interdisciplinary Integration in Biobehavioral Health. Professor Jennifer Graham-Engeland.

Mar-Aug Undergraduate teaching assistant for “Biology” course, Anthropology Department, 2014 University of Chile. 2010-2013 Student Assistant - “Evolution II”, fourth-year course, Physical Anthropology. Anthropology Department, University of Chile.

- “Population Genetics”, third-year course, Physical Anthropology. The anthropology Department, University of Chile.

- “Introduction to Physical Anthropology”, second-year course. The anthropology Department, University of Chile.

- “Bioinformatics” course for the third year, Physical Anthropology. The anthropology Department, University of Chile.

- ”Statistics II” course for the first year The anthropology Department, University of Chile.

- “Statistics I” for the first year. The anthropology Department, University of Chile.

Short Courses

2012 Practice Course “Analysis and interpretation of bone trauma samples in Cases of Suspected Violations of Human Rights and Common Criminal Context”, organized by Medical and Legal Service (SML), Santiago de Chile and sponsored by Panamerican Health Organization.

Awards

2015-2020 BECAS CHILE- Chilean scholarship for international Ph.D. degrees (N° 72160326), funded by CONICYT, Ministry of Education, Chile.

2015-2016 FEGR Award - Fund for Excellence in Graduate Recruitment.

Department of Biobehavioral Health, College of Health and Human Development, Penn State University, PA, United States.

2015 Highest honor award, Anthropology promotion 2015.

Anthropology Department, University of Chile.

Travel Awards

2016, Mar International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) travel award.

Travel award to attend to the 18th Annual Genes, Brain and Behavior Meeting of IBANGS Bar Harbor, Maine, USA, 12-16 May 2016

2016, Mar Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition (CBBC) of Pennsylvania State University travel award.

Travel award to attend to the 18th Annual Genes, Brain and Behavior Meeting of IBANGS Bar Harbor, Maine, USA, 12-16 May 2016

Publications

In prep Helen M. Kamens, Constanza Silva, Colette Peck, and Carley Miller. Varenicline’s 2017, Apr influence on adolescent ethanol behaviors. Brain Research Bulletin.

In Press Helen M. Kamens, Constanza Silva, Riley McCarthy, Ryan J. Cox, & Marissa A. 2017 Ehringer. No evidence of a role of the β4 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in alcohol behaviors. BMC Research Notes, RESN-D-16-00783R1.

2015, Dec Póntigo, F; Silva, C; Moraga, M; Flores, SV. Streptococcus massiliensis in the human mouth: a phylogenetic approach for the inference of bacterial habitats. Genet Mol Res. 2015 Dec 29;14(4):19184-90. doi: 10.4238/2015

2015, Jun Silva, C.; Flores, S. Alcohol consumption patterns and genotypes determining alcohol tolerance in Chilean university students. Rev. Méd. Chile vol.143 no.6 Santiago jun. 2015, ISSN 0034-9887.

Published Abstracts

2016, May C.P. Silva, M.J. Caruso, W.J. Horton, H.M. Kamens. “The Effect of Nicotine Exposure on Ethanol Consumption and Gene Expression: A WGCNA Analysis”. 18th Annual Genes, Brain, and Behavior Meeting of IBANGS Bar Harbor, Maine, United States.

2016, Apr C.P. Silva, M.J. Caruso, W.J. Horton, H.M. Kamens. “The Effect of Nicotine Exposure on Ethanol Consumption and Gene Expression: A WGCNA Analysis”. 2nd Annual Addiction Symposium, Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania, United States.

2015, Mar Silva Gallardo C and Flores Carrasco S. “Genetic variants and alcohol intake patterns in university population in Santiago of Chile”. 84th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

2014, Nov Silva Gallardo C and Flores Carrasco S. “Patrones de consumo y variantes genéticas involucradas en la tolerancia al alcohol en población universitaria de Santiago de Chile” / Alcohol intake patterns and genetic variants involved in tolerance to this substance in undergraduate students from Santiago, Chile”. Latin American Association of Biological Anthropology (ALAB), Santiago, Chile. BAG, J. basic appl. genet. vol.25 supl.1 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires oct. 2014. ISSN 1852-6233.

Non-published Abstracts

2013, Oct Silva Gallardo C and Flores Carrasco S. “Patrones de consumo y variantes genéticas involucradas en la tolerancia al alcohol en población universitaria de Santiago de Chile” / Alcohol intake patterns and genetic variants involved in tolerance to this substance in undergraduate students from Santiago, Chile”. Community Mental Health Center (COSAM), Puente Alto, Santiago, Chile. (Conference)

undergraduate students from Santiago, Chile”. IV Conference on Research in the Department of Anthropology 2013, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. (Conference)

2013, Oct Pontigo Arancibia F, Silva Gallardo C and Flores Carrasco S. "Análisis genético del microbioma oral e inferencia de dietas" / “Genetic Analysis of oral microbiome and diet inference”. XI National Conference of Biological Anthropology, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Poster)

2012, Nov Pontigo Arancibia F, Silva Gallardo C and Flores Carrasco S. “Streptococcus massiliensis en la cavidad oral humana: una aproximación filogenética para la búsqueda de especies bacterianas” / “Streptococcus massiliensis in the human oral cavity: a phylogenetic approach to the search for bacterial species ". XV Latin American Congress of Genetics, XLI Argentine Congress of Genetics, XLV Congress of the Genetics Society of Chile and II SAG-Coast Regional Meeting. (Poster)

Languages

English Fluent (101/120 TOEFL IBT Test)

Spanish Mothertongue

Software knowledge

Advance Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Mega5, Bioedit and R. Knowledge Academic References

Dr. Helen Kamens Assistant Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University. 219 Biobehavioral Health Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 United States (814) 865-1269 [email protected]

Dr. Sergio Flores Carrasco Academic Director, Social Sciences Faculty, University of Chile. Av. Capitán Ignacio Carrera Pinto Nº1045, Ñuñoa Santiago of Chile University of Chile [email protected]